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By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze

Introduction — The Plant That Refused to Be Silenced

Every century births a paradox that defines its moral and scientific struggle. For ours, that paradox is cannabis, a plant once criminalized as poison, now emerging as a cure. To some, it is rebellion. To others, redemption. Yet in the quiet corridors of medicine and neuroscience, cannabis is something far more profound: an evolutionary dialogue between plant intelligence and human biology.

For decades, fear disguised itself as policy. Nations legislated morality while ignoring molecular truth. The “war on drugs” became a war on discovery, silencing research, imprisoning …